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by tom_ 7mo ago
Not typically - but when it's called Forty Cal, maybe? That's what, one bell pepper?
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by tom_ 7mo ago
The C standard doesn't have anything to say about sockets at all, so not like it's defined to use them even in the right order.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
~36 MB . (though it sounds like if you left it for long enough, you'd get 36 GB of ads downloaded eventually)
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by tom_ 7mo ago
I've not noticed any official announcment of it, but the project has felt largely abandoned for a few years now.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Better to have two names for one thing than one name for two, that's my view.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
You can say "shit" here if you like.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
We'll find out when it happens! Which, so far, it hasn't.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
The local account tip is a good one. I used it when setting up Windows 11 Pro on my desktop PC. Regarding updates: you might not even need to think about registry keys! I found these Windows 10 group policy settings to work well for many ye
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by tom_ 7mo ago
You're sort-of right, I think, because you do need an Apple account to sign in to the Mac App Store to get current Xcode in the first place - but the $99 is entirely optional! For distributing your program without the fee, you'll
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Possibly related: this post about Lotus 1-2-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279633 The Emacs interface in general isn't massively like Lotus 1-2-3's, but magit's somewhat is. The above post goes int
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by tom_ 7mo ago
If the review tooling is any good, getting the code somewhere it can see it is a convenient way for people to give and receive feedback. As the saying goes, the system is what it does! (And/but yes/no, I have never worked at NAGFA
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by tom_ 7mo ago
My Mac has no keyboard, it's just a metal box that sits on your desk - so an external keyboard is the only option. Nobody told me I had to get any specific type in particular! It looks like you can still use hidutil to remap some other
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by tom_ 7mo ago
It's nothing like rediscovering everything. Not only is it only Emacs, but it's also been designed by people with a goal of being straightforward to use by people. And whatever you create just needs to be useful to you personally
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Also mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291513 - see the article section: "Quietly" and Other Magic Adverbs. Presumably the LLM writing style rubbing off, assuming the LLM hasn't been used
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Pretty much any Mac bought in the past 5 years can fulfil the requirements, which doesn't feel terribly unreasonable, and I bet the Intel case would be straightforward to cover too, and now you're catering for every Mac bought in
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by tom_ 7mo ago
The background is indeed not black, but if it isn't actually white then it's close enough that the text, which i'm sure is indeed mostly actually grey rather than black, shows up well. I've seen worse.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645 , and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247649
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by tom_ 7mo ago
Also good for people that have a light coloured terminal background.
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by tom_ 7mo ago
I have an M4 Max Mac Studio, and my record is 5 clicks. I found the success rate much improved after I assigned a keyboard shortcut; I have had it quickly wake up again a couple of times, so it's still not quite perfect, but that'
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by tom_ 8mo ago
You should have started with your 3rd paragraph, because that clarifies my misunderstanding of your comment. I stand by my comment as well, though. We can both be right here. Unfortunately, you started with the first 2 paragraphs, so clea
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by tom_ 8mo ago
Yes, it was always about writing useful programs for computers. Which is why people moan about the use of LLMs: because then the writing aspect is gone! Anyway, this stuff will resolve itself, one way or another.
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by tom_ 8mo ago
Windows: I set min size to whatever is necessary to make RAM+swap add up to ~2 GBytes per CPU thread, to avoid problems with parallel Visual Studio builds. (See, e.g., https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/precompiled-
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by tom_ 8mo ago
It's not just an icon in the notification area though! There's a keyboard shortcut for it. I never figured out quite what it was, but every now and again Copilot would open itself while I was using Visual Studio or Emacs on my Win
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by tom_ 8mo ago
Terminal Emacs exists only so that experienced Emacs users can still get some approximation of their preferred setup when they're stuck unable to run the proper GUI version. I wouldn't pay too much attention to it.
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by tom_ 8mo ago
Thank you for creating the containment thread.
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by tom_ 8mo ago
I meant a link to the blog post including the comment quoted. (I suppose "comment" vs "post" could be a bit ambiguous. Sorry about that.) Anyway, for the record, it's here: https://kodiak64.co.uk/mic
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by tom_ 8mo ago
A link to the comment in question would be good. I had a quick go at finding it, but couldn't (though not to say I spent a huge amount of effort on this project). But I agree that it's useful to highlight this kind of thing. If yo
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by tom_ 8mo ago
I like these: https://eu.perixx.com/products/periboard-535 The F-lock nonsense isn't too awful, you get all of the keys, the layout is pretty standard, you can buy ANSI layout ones in the UK, and there's a fu
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by tom_ 8mo ago
Indeed it is, and hence my comment - see, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256409 . I was wondering how it might be done generally by posting strings here though!
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by tom_ 8mo ago
What strings would you post to sabotage Emacs?

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